Written by

Dave Flessner
| TimesFreePress

The Tennessee Valley Authority backed away from the nuclear plant design that is proving costly at Plant Vogtle in Georgia, but the federal utility still is leading the nation in pursuing more nuclear power.
TVA is finishing one reactor and considering completing two others that are the last of the previous generation of nuclear plants begun before the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. Although TVA deferred its original plan to build one of the first of the next generation ...